Not much going on in sports. But this headline blew my mind. Seven hits is a career high? That’s as ridiculous as his record as a starter this year. Dude might go 10-12 and win the Cy Young. Right, moving on.
Wait, so they’re just enforcing the existing policy? Let’s check the story.
An Air Force spokesperson told The Associated Press that “although service members with 15 to 18 years of honorable service were permitted to apply for an exception to policy, none of the exceptions to policy were approved.”
So not as nefarious as the lede is presenting it. Big surprise.
I had no idea a judge had this power. I always thought it was up to the executive departments to determine when and where environmental impact studies needed to be done and all sorts of other stuff. I guess that’s the case under (D)ifferent circumstances.
I wonder how much she got. And I wonder what role she’s gonna end up with.
There are times when one should just remain silent. This was one of those times. Also, dude has two wives and that’s buried way down in the story.
LOL. The absurdity of this piece… Just fire these turds, already.
She will not win mom of the year. Hell, she won’t win an award for being a civilized human being. I’d call her the biggest piece of shit around, but…
…that award seems to have been taken already. I hope this person ends up in prison and the entire school district is burned to the ground and the ashes salted.
At least they’re going through the courts. Could have gone with the “We came, we saw, he died” policy, which resulted in so much success when Obama did it.
You gotta twist the definition of the word “access” into a pretzel to come up with this lede. But NPR gonna NPR.
I’m not sure the 1A says what this group thinks it says.No, free speech isn’t a privilege the government hands out. But visas are. I love FIRE, but they’re wrong here and the law has been clear on that forever.
This track deserves more play. That’s my opinion. Maybe not as much as this one. But still more than it gets. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.
I don’t think she is a supermodel either.
“Super” meaning “bigger?”
[ lights the Tres signal ]
Meaning famous for professional modeling.
“Rizvi lives in Pakistan, where she operates a salon and posts glitzy photos of herself on social media to her half-million followers on TikTok and Instagram.”
Eye color mens a lot to Stone Age peoples.
And to Lo-Pan
And to Lo-Pan
Here is where I go for Big Trouble in Little China references. Bravo sir.
“The most popular trend du jour, driven largely by millennials, is ‘coffee badging’. It involves showing up at the office just long enough to grab a coffee, greet the right people, and then quietly leave to finish the day working remotely.
The behavior is now so widespread that executives are seeing it as a threat to their efforts to return workforces to the office.
Three-quarters of companies say they are struggling with employees coffee badging, a recent report found.”
They can’t just fire them?
If a honey badger can fight off a pack of leopards, a coffee badger can fight off a boss or two.
“Look at that lazy fuck! Coffee badger takes what it wants….”
I miss that guy’s videos.
Finding new people costs time and money.
If the people you have can be behaviorally corrected, it’s much cheaper.
Not for nothing, but if it’s cheaper to retain the “coffee badging” employees, maybe it’s worth examining your remote work policies to see if making people show up to the panopticon in-person is really benefiting your productivity or not.
This right here.
It’s a concern at my company, but my department has been generally fully compliant on return to work.
It’s not.
In fact, most companies have so much bloat they could undergo a twitter style purge and probably work better.
Pat, agreed. However, that’s not going to happen because of peer company pressure in many companies.
I am fairly certain it’s not – iif your job, like mine, does not benefit in any way from face-to-face.
I was (re)hired during the plague. Making me go to the office would be a 30% pay cut (not to mention a 10-hour daily commute).
Yeah, upper management is definitely pissed. If they have to go in, everyone else has to also dammit.
What Pat says.
You dont go into business to be in charge. You go into business to make money. Which scenario makes more money? It is as simple as that.
“What do I look like? A shareholder? I am here to be Important!“
And they seriously think corporate laptops don’t track VPN connection statistics (how long and where) and possibly key tracking to the point where actual office attendance won’t be spelled out (if it isn’t already… I think our RTO policy did, in fact, make it clear that you were expected to spend hours in office… that said, if corporate isn’t stressing about it and it is left to middle management discretion (which also seems true in these parts) and the work is getting done.. who cares? Yeah — there’s the “culture” thing.. but as I ranted and raved in a 1×1 the other day — that’s meaningless when corporate also has the team geographically distributed so you’re not actually in the office with anyone you really work with anyway… you’re not going to talk to the Sales guys loudly doing their calls and they’re not going to pair program with you.. )
You won’t even need the data from the laptops. The company VPN will be tracking connections server-side.
Shut down Teams and Zoom, no more virtual meetings; you’re there in person or you’re not.
Right… and that will work great when collaborating with the India, China, etc. folks JI… you can’t be Global Mega-Corp with distributed workforces to chase cheap labor and kill teleconferencing.
My boss is the only person I work with – and that not even very frequently – in my assigned office. Everyone else is all over the world.
No, this is more about justifying office leases and about manager envy than anything else.
Speaking of the office being less productive for me than WFH…
Exactly, SDF-7 – of the 14 or so people I was meetings with yesterday, about 4 were in the same timezone.
Depends on the job and industry, but WFH can work well. I also get arguments about being in the office. Turns out, one size does not fit all. Who knew?
No, this is more about justifying office leases and about manager envy than anything else.
I don’t know. I guess it depends on the industry. I see a lot of people become less productive when they have no professional structure. Too many distractions lead to too much wasted time on the company dime. A lot of that gets cured when they’re forced into an office where there is oversight.
I’d venture to say that is 10x more true when applied to government employees, who are already spectacularly lazy relative to their private sector counterparts.
That said, it’s up to the companies to do what they want and the employees to decide if they want to continue working for them. As for the aforementioned government lackeys, I’d be thrilled if they were required to log every minute of work time in an office, and paid accordingly. Maybe that would influence a ton of them to quit.
This. I drive 40 minutes to work so I can attend Teams meetings with people in other states.
My more serious position on this is that the market will sort it out, and it almost certainly doesn’t have a single correct answer applicable to all jobs at all companies in all industries. I will admit I find it kind of amusing that I see some of the same ’employee advocate’ types simultaneously clutching pearls about AI taking jobs, and clutching pearls because the demon bosses are forcing employees to…. go back to the way things worked almost universally 5 years ago.
Slum and Sloop – agree. I don’t mean to imply it works for everyone. Just me because I only care about me. 🙂
Which, quite frankly, is ridiculous. That cat isn’t going back into the bag.
Don’t blame me because my job consists of nothing more than yakking on the phone and tapping on a keyboard.
(((Jarflax: The AI taking jobs thing is correct. They can clutch pearls all they like. This dispute will be moot in a couple of years.
The point I was trying to make is that if you are worried about losing jobs to automation you should probably emphasize the areas in which humans have advantages, which includes face to face interactions.
But the contacts with the other businesses and customers will be by computer. The decisions are going to be made by computer. Face to face is obsolete.
Face to face is obsolete.
That’s an interesting premise. Perhaps in high-trust social eco-systems, but if trust deteriorates under the absence of real human interaction than F2F may not be so obsolete.
Fire them in front of everyone at an all-employee meeting. Mount their badges in a display at reception. Bask in the Glory of actually getting work done.
Last year there were quite a few people on my team who were fired due to staying WFH, or just badging in and going back home to work.
Sadly, whether WFH works or not is a two-variable problem:
(1) Can the work be done from home?
(2) (Often overlooked) Can this person work from home without fucking off, or do they need an office environment to keep their off-fucking within acceptable parameters?
Back during the Plague when WFH was the new hotness, it seemed like I couldn’t talk to anyone who wanted to do it without all the other shit they planned to do during the workday coming up within, oh, 15 – 30 seconds.
Producing a real product doesn’t fly with WFH, so only virtual work (in all meanings) is the question and that is the stuff that AI is the biggest threat to.
I would probably like WFH much less if I didn’t live alone. So yeah, I can see how it would cause distractions but for me, the office has way more distractions that I cannot control.
Thank God I’m old.
I would hate to be a young brain-worker in the coming apocalypse.
I’m playing devil’s advocate here, but does everybody remember the Twix vid from a few years ago, with the Microsoft ‘project manager’ who’s work day consisted of about 1.5 hours of doodling on a whiteboard, and about 4.5 hours of snacking in the gourmet cafeteria and company coffee bar, playing video games, and otherwise jerking off?
That was all in-office.
Sounds like a variation of my plan to collect two paychecks by leaving a cup of hot coffee at my desks. “He must be here somewhere. His coffee is still warm.”
“Well, security is on their way – he’s fired and we’re escorting him out.””
Probably too many years in California — but a lawsuit halting development for spurious environmental studies and more money for
lawyers and shillsfurther impact assessments? Another day that ends in a “y”.Y’all expect sanity apparently… foolish mortals.
Morning Sloopy — thanks as always for your effort in providing the links. We enjoy enacting your labor.
Morning all… may you all achieve your final forms without a nuclear power cell explosion.
Probably too many years in California — but a lawsuit halting development for spurious environmental studies and more money for
lawyers and shillsfurther impact assessments? Another day that ends in a “y”.But those are generally state level lawsuits, not federal. And when they’re federal, they’re at the behest of the EPA, which is not what happened here. In this case, the plaintiffs are in no position to enforce EPA policy and should not have been given standing.
Standing only applies when the judge doesn’t desperately want the action you’re calling for based on the precedents from the last few years.
If the judge doesn’t like your politics or just wants to dodge the issue… no one has standing. Especially with the Nazgul.
Just to finish that self-licking ice cream cone – not only lacking standing, but when the “settlement” comes, they get a pay-off out of that.
Back in the early aughts, I want to say 2003 or so, there was a huge paintball facility being built – Hollywood Sports Park, a second location developed by the proprietor of the then-legendary SC Village paintball fields. Something like 6 months into development some endangered owl was found nesting on the property and development had to be halted. A serendipitous tornado touched down and destroyed the next, the owl vanished, and development was allowed to proceed.
“…development had to be halted…” by whom? Who ordered it?
Some state environmental agency that had to sign off on permits, IIRC.
Ok. So the executive that enforces the enviro regs.
I’ve heard of Jewish lightening, but never a Jewish tornado.
The weather control lasers have gotten more powerful
I’m not convinced my in office time is more productive, unless I’m here on a day when my coworkers are not.
The damn noise they make is so insufferable I have to wear noise-cancelling headphones and put on something so that they do their job. This creates an anti-collaborative bubble. I communicate with people a few cubes down via instant messenger so we can avoid the awkwardness of speaking.
And you’re forced to buy more work gloves!
We have autists here who use the people-cancelling headphones. I see the allure but I’m too social.
Is being anti-social covered under the ADA?
I doubt it. And if I got a mental health evaluation to support it, suddenly I’m on all sorts of lists of “deprive this crazy person of his rights”
The damn noise they make is so insufferable I have to wear noise-cancelling headphones
That was the impetus for my joining our FT work-from-home pilot in 2010 – I was right next to the networking guys yelling into their phones at people in noisy data centers.
It wasn’t conducive to heads-down coding.
If I were God Emperor Mouse I’d ask if she was interested in Kathleen Kennedy’s job. She certainly couldn’t do worse and likely better.
“Gina, what is best in Film?”
“To crush the box office, see your profits driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the DEI managers!”
I predict a non-speaking role as some kind of alien, requiring so much makeup/a mask she is unrecognizable.
“The kids’ 69-year-old maternal grandmother lived about a mile away and the kids would go there and fill old cat litter containers with water, KDKA reported, citing police. Police said the grandmother told them she knew how the kids were living but hadn’t gone in the house because it was “too gross,” according to Trib Live.”
Another argument against anarchy.
Just the lower orders of Vance’s kin. Not everyone gets his meemaw.
Hope you didn’t hurt your back.
Are you shocked to find out what humans can do?
Something awful that happened under the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-loving eye of the state, isn’t exactly an argument for the state.
The state put an end to it.
Yup. With about the level of care and urgency we’ve come to expect.
lol I saw a relief pitcher the other day give up seven hits in like 20 pitches before the fans booed him off.
I don’t know how people can say baseball is boring with stuff like that happening.
Great game.
You gotta twist the definition of the word “access” into a pretzel to come up with this lede.
If I can’t get it for free, I don’t have access.
New policy, the federal government pays for birth control for anyone on welfare or disability, BUT in the name of efficiency it’s irreversible surgical contraception.
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One would think Margaret Sanger’s spiritual descendants would wholly endorse this plan, yes.
But not the people running the industry today. They want the money generated by perpetual customers and selling the baby parts.
lol Wouldn’t want more poors running around, would we.
My only surprise reading that is that it wasn’t put in place by LBJ to kill off more of the undesirables.
Funny how my opinion of Nixon only goes down over the years — and that it is nothing to do with Watergate.
SDF-7 – but he opened up China!
inorite??
Wow… a Pakistani man (wealthy enough to feel entitled as well) demonstrating a complete lack of respect for Western women…
This is my shocked face.
In all fairness, they don’t respect Muslim women either.
Fair point, good sir… fair point.
And another bint promoting her social media accounts.
A waitress I worked with years ago started dating an Iranian pilot. Shortly after thay she started showing up for her shift after having walked into doors at home. Those guys sure make women act clumsily around them.
I don’t care; I’m just sick and fucking tired of the deliberate tranny takeover of the news.
That doesn’t just apply to trannies.
RIFs caught many officers that hadn’t reached the 18 year mark. It was simply too many and QC took over. I was a happy guy the day my 18th anniversary rolled around.
Though I was not in any danger the fact that the magic mark hadn’t been reached the threat is always there. Bn XO, major, 17 years, was riffed, he didn’t meet the weight-height standards/expectations.
BMI is such BS.
“You gotta twist the definition of the word “access” into a pretzel to come up with this lede.”
It’s just like people of color don’t have access to checking accounts in California.
It difficult to save the $5 needed to open an account.
These banking products are known to the state of California to cause cancer.
For your protection, you will not be exposed to them.
That’s the epitome of a frivolous lawsuit.
Journalism is a job Americans won’t do.
Uh-huh. Sure they have, Ms. “Reich” (if that is even your real name).
“The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in San Jose. It challenges Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s sweeping authority to revoke visas “at any time, in his discretion” and to deport noncitizens if he “determines” their speech compromises “a compelling United States foreign policy interest.”
“In the United States of America, no one should fear a midnight knock on the door for voicing the wrong opinion,” Conor Fitzpatrick, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, said in a news release. “Free speech isn’t a privilege the government hands out. Under our Constitution it is the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child.”
Both of these things are true. Although doubt writing stupid articles in a college paper is a compelling United States foreign policy interest.
How about a boring form letter from the immigration bureau letting you know your visa has been revoked?
And that’s why you’d be mounting the same defense for, say, a naval aviator who got fired for saying “nigger,” right you disingenuous hack? Fun fact: free speech isn’t a privilege the government hands out, but a student visa is.
“I’d call her the biggest piece of shit around, but…”
A challenger appears
“A blood-soaked 5-year-old girl ran to get help after witnessing her father kill her mom, aunt and grandmother before turning the gun on himself in a horrific murder-suicide at their Florida home, according to authorities and reports.
Deputies found the three dead women and the dying shooter, identified as 34-year-old Christopher Bobby Rowell, at a home in Hilliard on the evening of July 24, Nassau County authorities said.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/08/us-news/mother-grandmother-and-aunt-killed-by-deranged-husband-in-murder-suicide-leaving-slain-moms-5-year-old-daughter-running-for-help/
She still wins. Your contender is no longer around
Very germane read to a number of our recent discussions.
Anybody who thinks American optimism is dead doesn’t know a thing about our cut-throat politics.
Each day the legacy media details President Trump’s latest alleged outrage and its devotees cheer, “We got him now.”
On the other side of the mirror, the conservative-leaning media reports on the left’s latest seeming cover-up and lie, and its fans shout, “They’re going down.”
Then nothing happens.
Oh, child…
Standard presumption about whoever is PotUS. The dick you wave around goes with the office, not the person.
I get that, it’s just mildly humorous anyone still thinks the US president is even the “leader of the free world,” let alone the “most powerful person on the planet” in 2025.
I think he was doing that to further dig at the Obamaphiles.
Hmm, I think I will go watch the Obama “at least I’ll go down as a President” mic drop again. It’s been a while.
OK, I’ll bite.
Who is the most powerful person on the planet?
You’re not important enough to know.
Unironically, pretty much this. The NGO/Military/Intelligence-Industrial Complex has been joking about the president being the “seasonal help” for 50 years, and we’re into year 11 now of the permanent bureaucracy telling the sitting executive to go fuck himself with the full throated endorsement of the judiciary. Who was running the autopen while Biden drooled into a cup for 4 years? Whoever that was, they may not be the most powerful person on the planet, but they’re more powerful than the wax figure that got elected.
So I ask again, who is it? Who is the most powerful single individual on the planet?
I don’t think it’s possible to assign any single individual as the most powerful on the planet. It’s more of an oligopolistic competition scenario applied to political economy. As heads of state go, Putin is probably the closest, since he exercises essentially unitary political authority, including the control of nuclear weapons, and is himself a graft-made billionaire leveraging his assets for political purposes.
If you, Mr. Big-Shot Hospital General Counsel Guy isn’t important enough to know, what makes you think any of us here know?
Other than Sugar Free, I mean. There’s a good chance his information sources discovered that identity.
Who is the most powerful single individual on the planet?
Even better, what power does that individual hold over you?
RC
It’s some asshole at a weigh station who has the power to ruin your day over anything he makes up at the time.
On NPR, no. There is no pretzel logic there. It is just a bald faced lie.
“The CEO of an AI startup received a severed pig’s head and a threatening note when his tech firm threatened to upend the “traditional brokerage” business in Las Vegas real estate.
Blake Owens, the founder of Agrippa, was branded a “Clark Kent knockoff” and says he received the disturbing package at his home because his company released an ominous video in June.
The 30-year-old Vegas resident revealed he discovered the bloodied carcass wrapped in packing paper and stuffed inside a cardboard box.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/08/us-news/vegas-agrippa-ai-ceo-blake-owens-mailed-bloody-pig-head-and-threatening-note/
Drugs may have been involved.
Was it still fresh enough to roast as a banquet centerpiece?
“I find out Thibault cancels out Capoferro.”
“Unless your enemy has studied his Agrippa, which I have!”
Darnit, I’ve only studied my Agricola
I know it seems sinister — but he is not left handed either.
Could be they’re celebrating him being a real head cheese and less of a boar… who knows?
Hmm, snout to tAIl?
Mob messaging has really changed. Used to be that the head of an animal was used for Hollywood producers, politicians got put in bed with a dead whore, and land developers got disappeared and put in a hole in the desert.
A zillion years ago, I dated a girl who was an Olympic alternate fencer (rapier and epee.) That’s when I learned that all of those terms are references to classical Italian fencing, and were used correctly in context during the fight. Who knew?
This guy claims they weren’t being used correctly in the movie. Maybe they were in the book though.
https://medium.com/@guywindsor/the-princess-bride-how-does-thibault-cancel-out-capoferro-4110b790facd
I watched the movie and read the book and still don’t remember the reference.
STEVE SMITH RAPIER
STEVE SMITH BROADSWORD LIKE ROB ROY, SPLIT IN HALF!
I’m not sure how seriously I’m gonna take a guy who says that Bob Anderson wasn’t versed in historical swordsmanship…
ES the guy is nit-picking the movie dialogue which didn’t follow the book (which did in fact use the terms correctly).
At the end of the day, you can say what you want, but that dude has Riz.
What an odd endorsement of Paul Skenes.
“A historic New Jersey synagogue was engulfed by a four-alarm fire early Friday morning as a rabbi and his family of six “luckily” escaped the inferno.
The fire broke out just before 3 a.m. at the Congregation Beth El in a residential neighborhood in Rutherford, WABC reported….
The cause of the fire remains unclear.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/08/us-news/new-jersey-synagogue-engulfed-by-flames-as-rabbi-family-luckily-escape-inferno/
3 AM sounds suspicious.
Why is “luckily” in ellipses?
Quoting Rutherford Police Chief John R. Russo.
Yeah that’s disturbing…
Odd-looking ellipses, at that.
It’s in single quotes, not double, and it is not a nested quotation.
Ugh. As to the ellipses/quotation marks error, I need coffee, I guess.
But to my point, “luckily” is the only word they got from his quote? It implies sarcasm. Otherwise they’d have quoted him with something like “they luckily made it out alive.”
Also, near the end, the piece says “The Post has reached out to the Rutherford Police Department for comment.” Doesn’t that imply that they haven’t gotten a direct quote from the department about the fire?
Indeed. Has anyone confirmed the whereabouts of The KLF?
No.
Obviously lightning.
(And a throwback to happier times when the easily offended didn’t note the real antisemitism in their group of liberal friends.)
Tomorrow’s match will be the first time all of the stages are my design. When trying to pick out five, I realized I rely too much on gun handling restrictions for variety and am still pretty shit at long courses.
I did include one that was rejected some years ago because of the MD’s opinion about KFGC’s shooter’s competence. I hope my confidence in them is justified.
You should extend an invite to the She Wolf of the SS so she can keep her hype going.
Great Idea! Do you have her cell phone?
Kentucky Fried Gummy Chews?
Kayaderosseras Fish and Game Club.
The gun clubs here rarely call themselves a gun club. The other USPSA club I shoot at is the “[municipality] Fish and Game Protective Association”
Mine is called Four Corners Rod and Gun Club, so it’s common out here too.
Interestingly, there is no fishing activity involved. Which is nice, as we don’t want
Innsmouthfish people here.KFGC does have a fishing committee and they do stock the local creek. Yours has the word “gun” in the name. Around here that’s too scary I guess. And they do seem to take the “game” part pretty seriously since half of the meeting is taken up by reports on the populations and harvest numbers.
My home gun club is the Thurmont Conservation and Sportsman’s Club.
But they also have an annual 2-gun match (next month!) called The Big Luau.
You market to different people different ways.
When I was growing up in OK, the gun clubs were always called “gun” clubs.
“Country Clubs” there were also not euphemisms got “golf clubs” either. They had the traditional Brit-snob entertainments as well. Southern Hills in Tulsa, which hosts PGA events also has shotgun sports and a polo grounds.
We do weekly three-gun matches, but I don’t walk very well anymore so I just do informal bullseye. I tried the liquid steel, or whatever it is called, and it didn’t ring my chimes, so…
The only polo field I have ever been at was Will Rodgers park in Santa Monica. Ran into (literally) Ahhhnold there, with his wife, Skeletor.
This is my club: https://fourcornersgunclub.com/
So I get to blame you for everything?
Of course! I need to be thickening callouses as part of the Range Master training program.
On the stage called “Be Careful!” You should be careful. Seriously. Lots of gun handling on that one.
😐
It does slow the gazelles way the fuck down though. They typically are not practicing those skills and their splits are going to be irrelevant. I also put a point-shooting target in which can be a trap on a limited stage.
Speaking of gazelles, I just got a notice about my squad at Race Gun Nats. Which let me peruse the super squads. LO is going to be reeeedonkadonk. Open is considerably less interesting, and Limited is only Nils v. Mason.
Women’s is going to be interesting to see how fast Morgan is improving v. Justine.
Aaaaand Max Leograndis and friends have decided to make their own PCC Super Squad (with blackjack and hookers?)
“Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has blasted “South Park” creators as “lazy” and “petty” after the show cruelly mocked her appearance — depicting her as a vain, Botoxed bimbo…
Noem admitted she hadn’t watched the latest episode in which she’s portray as a glammed-up ICE agent who loves Botox”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/08/us-news/kristi-noem-blasts-south-park-after-show-brutally-mocks-her-appearance/
https://decider.com/2025/08/07/kristi-noem-shoots-puppy-south-park-episode/
It’s South Park. Although she does seem to be way over doing it.
:eyeroll: It is South Park, not the Royal Shakespeare Company…. the ones that started out with construction paper cutout animation? You’re just going to make yourself look like a petty, humorless wench complaining. Treat it like musicians treat a Weird Al parody — you’ve made it big time enough to be made fun of and focus on your real job lady.
If nothing else it’s the Streisand effect as well. If you want to downplay the cultural relevancy of South Park (which, to be fair, hasn’t been culturally relevant in well over a decade), why even address it? Especially just to feign outrage and then admit you didn’t watch it.
Wait. You mean Rob Reiner isn’t a big bag of goo?
Next you’ll be telling me that Canadians look just like everyone else…
I have to admit, I laughed with her shooting all the puppies.
I’m out until even they grow tired of their lazy tiny-penis jokes.
She is a vain, botoxed bimbo and slamming it without watching it (or with watching it for that matter) doesn’t speak well to intelligence either. More mockery surely incoming.
She take a lesson from Vance, who just rolls with it.
Here’s the kicker – the corrupt and/or incompetent supervisor is still employed by the federal government!
Skenes is the real deal, luckily for the other teams playing against him the Pirates don’t score many runs when he pitches. The midling Cardinals have beat him 3 times this year, 5-3, 1-0 and 2-1. Those 5 earned runs were the most he’d ever given up in a game and the Cards only had 6 hits.
Skenes is a witch. If he stays healthy, his career stats are gonna be insane.
And the most insane one will be the three Cy Youngs along with a 150-170 record.
Ah yes, the Felix Hernandez syndrome.
“Hidden addiction sweeping US as Americans hooked on substance being slipped into popular drinks”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14980117/addiction-sweeping-US-Americans-hooked-substance-slipped-popular-drinks.html
It makes you hold fish in a garden!!!
Different type of scare — but the way the article is written, this was all I could think of….
Moral panics are bad enough. Treating them as click-bait the way Tater did, is a crime against humanity.
Worse even than pineapple on pizza.
Is pineapple on Chicago style casserole OK, since it’s clearly not pizza?
The Ramones did it first.
Sugar?
“Eva Longoria’s loudmouthed virtue signaling backfires spectacularly as Spanish town enacts Muslim crackdown”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14979893/Eva-Longorias-virtue-signaling-backfires-Spain-bans-Muslim.html
STIJLTH
Re-re-conquista?
“We kicked you out in 1492, and we’ll do it again.”
WWCMD
What Would Charles Martel Do?
732 to 1492 is a long ass process, btw.
Apparently the reconquista was a Civilization (the game) war.
Yes.
So they should start as soon as possible. Otherwise it’ll take longer to finish.
Stupid Twat Inadvertently Justifies Laws That Harm?
lol Vox is far-right there 🥴
I read “The Aviator” by Eugene Vodolazkin.
The awfulness of tragedy isn’t sudden. It’s the gradual loss.
Man in Nova Scotia explains which “woods” you cannot hike in.
https://x.com/JeffEvely/status/1953239019560783973
STVE SMITH SAY HIKING IN WOODS IS FINE!
Stay away from the woods that have naked men in gimp masks holding a dildo on a stick.
Well, now you tell me!
Maybe Salman’s a great guy when he’s not threatening to rape people though. Also, that girl’s a supermodel? Not bad looking but come on.
“Officials have said that as of Dec. 9, 2024, there were 4,240 troops diagnosed with “gender dysphoria” on active duty, National Guard and Reserve.”
So how many of them are active duty* with between 15 and 18 years of service?
*who I presume are the only ones accruing retirement benefits
4,240 out of how many? Also curious how many of each sex.
I would guess not more than 1 or 2 males.
“Vice President JD Vance was spoofed by South Park on their second episode of their 27th season this week, as was TPUSA’s Charlie Kirk. Both men embraced their portrayals.
“Well, I’ve finally made it,” quipped Vance. The animators portrayed Vance as “Tattoo” from the 1970s show “Fantasy Island” with Mar-a-Lago as the island and President Trump in the role of Ricardo Montalban’s “Mr. Roarke.” Vance has been relentlessly memed.
Kirk was portrayed by the character Eric Cartman, who was attempting to be like Kirk. Kirk spoke about the episode on The Charlie Kirk Show on Thursday morning.
“First of all, I just think it’s hilarious,” Kirk said. “And secondly, the whole thing is like, so a campus thing I’ve been doing for 13 years to debate college kids now gets prominent prime time placement on Comedy Central—I think the whole thing is just awesome,” he said.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/jd-vance-charlie-kirk-embrace-south-park-parody-of-themselves
Do normies even know who Charlie Kirk is?
I don’t.
Captain Kirk’s brother?
Wasn’t that George?
UCS, just because you don’t know who Charlie Kirk is doesn’t mean the normies don’t.
Are you accusing me of being abnormal?
Just making note of where you are and who you are around.
I’m in an office with nobody around me.
*Looks in to subthread
Sees UCS taking umbrage at being considered abnormal
*backs away slowly making the sign of the cross
I thought Vance as Tattoo was pretty good. And it appears Vance understands how to deal with the parody.
If you can’t just roll with the mockery and parody, you shouldn’t be in public office.
I agree completely Sensei.
Followup question: does anybody in the over 65 demo that would understand a Fantasy Island reference actually watch South Park?
Matt and Trey are only in their 50s, I think.
I’ve never seen the show, but I get the reference.
No, I am not over 65.
Hey! I’m not over 65, and I caught the Fantasy Island reference.
They’ve done Buck Rogers, Heavy Metal and bunch of other parodies.
So folks in their 50s.
Now that I think about it, Fantasy Island and Love Boat had pretty much the same premise, right? “Guest of the Week gets their heart’s desire?”
Now I’m wondering if there were other such shows at the time. My parents were very parsimonious about the TV we were allowed to watch.
I mean I’m under 40 and would get it, but I was a dweeb who watched Nick at Nite throughout my entire childhood and adolescence. I would have assumed I was in a small minority.
I turn 56 in a week. I watched both. Although I haven’t seen South park in about 15 years probably. I cannot believe it and The Simpsons are still going.
Pat:
There has also been a reboot/remake/new series in 1998 and 2021 and a (seriously gods awful HORROR film) released in 2020.
Well shit, it looks like I was the one who was out of touch.
It’s not so much an understanding as is it worth the effort? The voices are too high pitched for me and a lot of other more maturer folks to enjoy. It’s definitely geared towards younger folks with better hearing.
One is my age and the other is two years younger. And yeah, we all watched Fantasy Island as kids.
I’m 47, it was on as reruns as a kid.
I caught up on the last ten years or so that I missed during a recent period of unemployment.
A steady decline in quality but there are a handful of very good ones.
“he legal challenge was brought by the Miccosukee Tribe, along with Friends of the Everglades, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Earthjustice.”
I have no idea who are those people, but they sound like assholes.
My cousin worked as a tribal cop for the Miccosukee. Briefly. There’s a Hard Rock Casino on the rez.
You can imagine what “free money” with no responsibilities and the elders controlling the flow results in.
They’re looking for a payday, again.
It’s the same script that people use in my town to stop anything. Start a group called Friends of XYZ (you don’t want to be an enemy do you?) and get the Center for Biological Diversity to write a bogus study. Bringing in an Indian tribe is a nice touch.
Re: The Princess Bride,
I predict that along with the general fracturing of universal cultural references, there will also be a reduction in intense familiarity with any particular piece of entertainment. There is so much variety so easily available that people won’t have to alleviate their boredom by rewatching their limited collection of VHS tapes.
People have actually shown this fracturing and explosion of entertainment with the last episode of MASH. From memory no other TV show has ever had such a large audience.
There used to only three TV networks.
There will also be a reduction in familiarity with any celebrity.
But also allowing people who would not be celebrities in the past becoming ones in different groups and niches (see MC Frontalot, Richard Cheese, and Jonathan Coulton as examples).
Which is part of the fracturing.
Richard Cheese is showing your age…hasn’t he retired or at least semi-retired?
robc:
Had to look it up (since I saw him just a couple years back and he was mentioning health scares at that show), seems that he’s been continuing to have health issues.
I understand the name change, but I like “Atlas Lounged”.
I remember my grandparents having friends who could quote vast sections of the Bible and also Shakespeare. They typically did not grow up with electricity.
I’ve noticed this for sure with the younger people I’m friends and intimates with. Cultural references for them last about 6 months tops. The idea of “classics” in popular entertainment is pretty much dead.
A friend of mine and his wife have no kids.
Disney adult types.
All their cultural references are from streaming shows I have never heard of.
Speaking of office culture…
There is an ad out there for some sort of on line job search operation. It shows a going away party for some highly valued and esteemed employee. At the end, the Boss Lady says she better get busy and find a replacement. This offends me.
The guy didn’t die in a plane crash, or fall off a scaffold, or have a heart attack while fucking a hooker at a convention. He is a long term employee whose eventual departure is a known upcoming event. You should have been looking for a replacement long before now. In fact, you should have been grooming and training in house replacement candidates for years. But that’s apparently not how things work anymore.
We can’t backfill until the position had been vacated.
It has taken 18+ months to hire even an approved position in the past.
OT – somebody built the device I always wanted to build.
https://thecarbcheater.com/
You still need a properly sorted carb, but this is really neat for drivability. If you turn it off your carb will work as designed. If you turn it on it uses a modern high speed AD to bleed vacuum for the “signal” to keep you closer to stochiometric at cruise and part throttle.
Bonus is you get a wideband O2 sensor and data logging for the initial carb tuning. So you get much of the benefit of fuel injection with lower cost and simplicity as well as redundancy.
That’s sweet.
Even if you are hiring outside, the hire should have been done a month earlier, so the retiree could train his replacement.
Finding a replacement doesn’t require at extensive search for most jobs. I thought (joking) the company I worked for would take a hit when I retired. Instead they grew and grew. Those people that I worked with had learned a lot from watching/working with me and were ready.
OTOH the company has changed so much, bureaucracy has grown and I don’t recognize it as the company I busted my butt for, the good times and the lean times. It happens to a lot of young companies as they grow, more rules, less fun.
“The Texas House of Representatives has sued 33 House Democrats who absconded to Illinois to prevent a vote on Congressional redistricting efforts in the Lone Star State.
The lawsuit was filed in the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court in Adams County, Illinois. It asks the court to hold the Democrats in contempt and to domesticate Texas warrants, allowing for absconding Democrats to be arrested and brought back to Texas.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/texas-house-illinois-state-senator-sue-33-awol-democrats-illinois-court
“Texas’ Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton opened a second investigation on Thursday, this time into whether a George Soros-backed Political Action Committee (PAC) financed state Democrats who fled Texas over redistricting.
The investigation comes on the same day that he opened a probe into whether Beto O’Rourke’s Powered by People PAC broke laws by allegedly funding the same group, who left the state over the weekend to deny Republicans a quorum to advance newly redrawn Congressional maps.”
https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/ken-paxton-opens-probe-whether-soros-funded-pac-funded-dems-who-left-texas
Powered by People?
Have you not made a device powered by a forsaken child?
Why Illinois? Even if you are running to a blue state, why not California? Or Colorado?
How’s Dildo Watch going? Any thrown at WNBA games last night, and if so what color?
Somehow I posted two comments about current events today with the word “dildo”. Strange times we live in.
Now I want someone to make a Mickey Mouse watch where Mickey has dildos for hands.
Yep. This time it was purple.
That’s awesome. This is the best timeline.
And what with the new “no bags” policy for WNBA games, you gotta wonder how they got it in.
To the game, I mean.
I’m seeing an investment opportunity.
Why does Morpheus look like a fat white kid?
If I’m supposed to find out how deep the rabbit hole really goes, those ain’t gonna cut it…
And he was charged with a felony for doing it.
Tater, that’s the guy who tossed the purple dildo.
And he was charged with a felony for doing it.
I will kill to get on that jury.
I’m not saying it wouldn’t work, but that’s a more reliable way of getting to the defense table.
You still need a properly sorted carb, but this is really neat for drivability.
The guy does good videos, too.
That thing is very clever. Instead of metering fuel, it meters air for mixture tuning.
Friday Funbags says you may as well give up.
https://archive.is/mBtqY
He (the Carb Cheater guy) is in Kinnath country.
Were you familiar with the product?
https://x.com/PuppiesIover/status/1953564983628796315
The dog is remarkably chill, because that’s gotta hurt.
Awwwww, poor guy.
I helped a neighbor with that, his dog. He held the dog, I used the pliers. Not so many as the boxer but still…
The dog realized we were helping.
Were you familiar with the product?
Yes.
Somehow I’m not surprised…
“Federal judge issues temporary restraining order on “Alligator Alcatraz,” pausing construction for 14 days”
Time to start ignoring this shit. They’ve already said that Trump is basically the antichrist so what more can they possibly say if just ignores clearly illegal orders from clearly partisan hack judges?
Sure, and that won’t ever come back to bite us in the future, will it?
It’s already been biting us in the past. I’m sympathetic to the argument, but I think we left the point of no return a while back. Now we watch things accelerate until one of 2 conclusions is reached –
1) SHTF and wiser heads on both sides agree to settle the fuck down.
2) The end of the empire.
Dildo philosophy
Philosopher Guy Debord would be shocked at how on the nose we have become. His work argued we live in a “society of the spectacle,” where life is mediated through image, and authenticity is replaced by performance. Today, women’s sports are doubly mediated, first through the lens of athletic competition, then through the social gaze that still questions their legitimacy. Laura Mulvey’s theory of the “male gaze” further sharpens this: Women, particularly in visual media, are often positioned not as agents but as objects. In this context, female athletes are not merely participants in a game. They’re props in someone else’s viral moment. The dildo becomes mise-en-scène.
That’s just what I was about to say.
That’s a really long-winded way to say “people think it’s funny”.
And male immaturity is the root of all evil.
I laughed, JI
“The dildo becomes mise-en-scène.”
Not what mise-en-scène means.
He was expecting.
“You will be dragged by your hair from your room and gang-raped and set on fire.”
To be fair, isn’t that just a standard greeting in Pakistan?
My monthly water bill says zero gallons used. It’s like a reverse leak. I think something may be incorrect.
Wait until you get the next bill with some “estimated” consumption.
The f….. gas company did this to me when they replaced a meter and missed a digit. I argued with them for two months about their mistake. On the third month with the mistake my wife paid the bill without telling me making us like $200 poorer. And this was when $200 acutally bought something. I was pissed, but she didn’t realize I was arguing with them.
What pisses me off is that there’s a minimum water bill here, regardless of consumption. And it seems to be based on at least one teenager being in the household.
I am trying to get it fixed because the usage rates are tiered. You pay more per unit the more you use.
We have a connection fee ($30) for electric power, then usage, tax and round up or down.
I have been arguing with a supplier about the fact that they sent an extra 200 pounds of welding wire and did not charge me for it for two months now. Trying to get an updated bill
It exposed that they had a credit on my account they didn’t bother to tell
Me about going back to 2020.
I paid them minus the credit and told them to figure out the overage themselves.
Imagine the bitching in future Green World where you will be expected to get your water by walking to the nearest stream and dipping it out with a hollowed out gourd.
Apparently it’s a ticky-tock video, but still good:
https://youtu.be/AhRD1I9n8Q8?t=406
What might have been
When think different meant something.
Needs more wheels and a fan!
But this isn’t just theoretical. It’s real. So is the disrespect. The dildo is a weaponized farce. It’s thrown not just to interrupt but to dominate the narrative, to remind players that their gender, their careers and their stage remain vulnerable to mockery. It stops the game. Hijacks it, even. And reasserts the notion, violent and comical, that women’s achievements exist on borrowed time within a culture still conditioned to belittle them.
Oh, lordy.
What a dick.
Wait… the Bills or Patriots are women?
Now there is a bigger dick contest if I’ve ever seen one.
It must be so exhausting spending your whole day figuring out why everything is an existential crisis.
If you want to be respected, maybe try not being a bunch of entitled whiners?
I never see people throwing dildos onto the track at roller derby jams. I wonder why that is?
Throwing a foreign object on a track where everyone’s on skates and every player could hip check you into next week seems like one of the worst ideas ever.
Besides, they can buy their own damn dildos. Why should I be giving them one for free?
They should throw them on the ice when a PWHL player scores three goals.
Not a pussy hat?
time to throw a fleshlight on the court?
“their gender, their careers and their stage remain vulnerable to mockery”
Well, aren’t they?
As is any gender, career, and “stage”. Jeebus, the men whose career is “President” and stage is “the White House” are mocked relentlessly.
Interesting discussion about remote working. Agreed it’s industry-specific and the market will sort it out.
For me, working from home is a no-brainer. My customers live all over the country and world. My employees are scattered across the US. There’s no business reason for a central office. Instead I get to hire the absolute best out of a nationwide pool of candidates instead of limiting my search to those in a geographic area. My overhead expenses are minimal, so I can be price competitive and kneecap the competition. They are dinosaurs trying to hang on and don’t even realize their model is already dead. Based on the layoffs I’ve been seeing over the past few years, they’ll realize soon enough.
The caveat is you have to hire the right people who can remain disciplined working from home. That’s not easy, and I spend a great deal of time recruiting/interview/etc.
Two other thoughts. AI taking jobs is real. It’s already as skilled as entry level workers and will only improve. There’s already been mass layoffs across multiple industries. Concern about WFH jobs going overseas is overblown. It’s cheaper but the quality of work just doesn’t stand up. A lot of companies that tried that are now backpedaling.
Very true. I’ve been saying for some time, outsourcing your tech support or development work to India or Southeast Asia is saying, “We don’t care about performance or results, we just want to check the necessary boxes.”
A lot of companies are also doubling down on it. A friend of mine works for Chase, and they just announced that they’re opening a new tech center in India, and moving a bunch of contract staff to FTE.
It’s not just industry or role specific, it’s worker specific.
Breaking news: A fourth dildo has been thrown at a WNBA game. This one was purple.
Finally broke the race barrier.
Species-ist!
Wait until they start throwing asses with drugs coming out of them onto the court.
Drugs falling out of your ass is expected when you pull the dildo out after getting through security.
If your dildo changes color see your doctor immediately !
So it’s the gay Teletubbie’s dildo. Celebrate diversity!
How did we arrive at this level of collective debasement? Despite living in an era of unprecedented digital access, over half of American adults (54%) read below a sixth-grade level, and 21% are considered illiterate as of 2022. This foundational deficit in literacy undermines a person’s ability to evaluate online messages critically. Thus, a generation raised on irony struggles to decode satire, or even manipulation. Back in 2013, 66% of fourth graders couldn’t read proficiently. It was a warning sign that today’s adults would fail to distinguish viral provocation from genuine meaning. Online, many young people now build identity from meme fragments, unconsciously mimicking behavior they don’t fully understand. Lacking media literacy, they become perfect vessels for cultural incoherence.
What a fascinating tidbit of information. I wonder how we arrived at this tragic cultural failure. I wonder if any particular organizations might bear responsibility for this abject failure to provide a basic educational foundation for civil society.
Tell me again how Kamala is brat.
They pose the question, and then answer it in the very next sentence…
I wonder how we arrived at this tragic cultural failure.
Racism, I’ll bet.
and low taxes
Your ironic comment is largely true. The racism of low expectations gave us brilliant ideas like teachers not being allowed to fail any student, or expel and student no matter how badly they perform or behave. It also gave us teachers hired by quota, and judged by conformity to ‘anti-racist’ (read more racist than the klan) ideology. Voila illiteracy approaching 15th Century rates
It’s all those GOP-controlled school boards, duh.
School board – the gateway drug for political careers.
That and “community organizer”. Not to mention the classic “activist”.
This is also a byproduct of importing tens of millions of illiterates from the third world, not just the piss-poor public education system and their willingness to just advance people to the next grade who have no business moving forward.
Government. It’s a government education system.
Sure, and that won’t ever come back to bite us in the future, will it?
Just as there is no past, there is no future. Only the struggle for the here and now.
The more the merrier
In 1910, the average congressional district comprised 211,000 voters. That had doubled by 1960 and now stands at nearly 800,000 souls for each congressional district. This not only makes effective representation difficult, but it also makes each seat too valuable.
If Congress undid the Reapportionment Act of 1929, which capped the number in perpetuity, they might opt to increase the size of the body by any number or metric they wished. But let’s just say, for argument’s sake, that they added over the next decade enough seats to grow by 50 percent, another 218 seats.
What could possibly go wrong?
It could lead to a sugar shortage?
If we could tie Congressional seats to the value of gold, they’d have an incentive to keep inflation down!
They could SugarFree their links?
“Look, we’re going to build a 30,000 seat stadium to house Congress, and set it at 1:30,000 citizens. We should have enough empty space to last another doubling of the population.”
Like I said yesterday, make them WFH.
And cut their salary while we’re at it. They are grossly overpaid as it is.
But greatly reducing their individual power is worth it.
Turn the Capitol into a museum.
Congresscritters can WFH. Why make it convenient for lobbyists to meet corruptees in bulk?
I was thinking we’d just lock them in for two years.
Oh like the first Papal Conclave? We could raise money by selling the rights to “lower” the bread and water to them.
DC wants to build a new stadium at the RFK site. Let Congress use it during the week.
What could possibly go wrong?
IMO, it would be a marked improvement over the current level of representation we have. I’d peg it at 30-40k. That would have four immediate results:
1. Make reps more accessible and responsive to constituents because the districts are much smaller
2. Make gerrymandering a lot more difficult
3. Make it tougher for specific reps to build up influence/power
4. Make it harder for third parties to influence pols with money
Why on earth would the members of Congress agree to dilute and reduce their individual importance?
Felonious Dildo?
Dell can bite me. I just wasted an hour and a half trying to get an obscenely expensive monitor to work, multiple cables, multiple types of cables, even wasted time using Dell’s ‘self-test’
which I will copy here for your amusement:
1. Turn off both your computer and the monitor.
2. Unplug the video cable from the back of the computer. To ensure proper Self-Test operation, remove the video cables (VGA, DVI, HDMI, or DisplayPort) from the back of the computer.
3. Turn on the monitor.
4. Turn off your monitor and reconnect the video cable: Then turn on both your computer and the monitor.
5. If your monitor screen remains blank after you use the previous procedure, check your video card (GPU) and computer, because your monitor is functioning properly.
Yes, you read that correctly. Dell’s self test mechanism indicates that the monitor is working properly if it REMAINS BLANK
Mikey did something to piss me off so I’ve been boycotting Dell.
I have absolutely no recollection of what it was, but I am still holding the grudge the way my mother taught me.
Congress link, v2
The Hill
I’m now getting invoice scam emails in Spanish …
¡Ay caramba!
“Whatever Donald Trump fears is in the Epstein files, it must be bad. He clearly worries his base is not ready to move on from demanding a full release of all documents pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender and alleged trafficker of underage girls — and a friend of Trump’s for over a decade.
Falsely accusing former President Barack Obama of “treasonous” behavior, a crime punishable by death, for conspiring against him in the 2016 election didn’t distract MAGA conspiracy theory enthusiasts. Calling on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to back up those lies didn’t work either. So now Trump is moving into abusing his presidential power to create the illusion that Obama did something wrong.
On Monday, after receiving a criminal referral from Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a grand jury probe into clearly false and laughable allegations that Obama and members of his administration committed federal crimes when they examined allegations that Russia had meddled in the 2016 election….”
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/06/bondis-phony-obama-probe-exposes-trumps-fears/
Hear me out this one time.
The break room there must be stocked with some amazing drugs.
I don’t think Mandy needs drugs. Well, she needs drugs, but the opposite kind.
That piece makes flat-earthers look sane by comparison.
Appeals court tosses judge’s contempt finding against Trump administration in prison deportations
I’d love to see the Feds get on this, if true.
https://x.com/informedmama209/status/1953553478317678834?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
Note: I’m 99.9% sure it’s true
“Jennifer Newsom Is a filmmaker and advocate for gender equity. She founded The Representation Project in 2011 and serves as its CEO. She also owns Girls Club Entertainment, LLC, her for-profit film production company.The Representation Project is A 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on “gender justice” through films and icenses documentaries Jennifer Newsom is paid about $150,000 from the nonprofit in salary.
Girls Club Entertainment, Inc is Jennifer Newsom’s for-profit company, which produces the films licensed by her nonprofit ‘The Representation Project’ which is funded by the state. Meaning taxpayer dollars fund Jennifer’s non-profit, which pays Jennifer a salary then contracts Jennifer’s for profit to produce all the films that have been licenced by her non-profit.”
Because there are no women in movies?
Even if this goes to a jury trial, she’ll come out ok. I can’t imagine anybody thinking someone who let Harvey Weinstein fuck her twice isn’t operating with diminished capacity.
MSNBC is on the case
It was nearly a decade ago when the Obama administration ended an existing ban on transgender Americans serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. Then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced in June 2016 that transgender service members are “talented and trained Americans who are serving their country with honor and distinction.”
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The Air Force is denying early retirement to all transgender service members with between 15 and 18 years of military service…
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Shannon Minter of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights told Reuters the developments are “devastating,” adding, “This is just betrayal of a direct commitment made to these service members.”
Check my math, but how can there be “transgender” troops with 15-18 years in?
Also- how does one conceal one’s actual sex in a communal living situation for years?
Well, the Army denied me early retirement at the rank of General. They claimed I didn’t have the rank or years, but I know it was because of discrimination.
I assume they’ll claim all those people waited to troon it up until after 2016.
“don’t ask, don’t tell”.
A lot of them heard about the free sex change operations after they joined…?
They don’t – they expect you to accept it, bigot.
Check my math, but how can there be “transgender” troops with 15-18 years in?
Likely the equivalent of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, or they decided they were trans after Obama made it okay.
Falsely accusing former President Barack Obama of “treasonous” behavior, a crime punishable by death
If the President does it, it’s not treason.
Duh.
I assume they’ll claim all those people waited to troon it up until after 2016.
Admit to falsifying records, lying under oath and defrauding the Defense Department? That’s a bold strategy.